Fitting a quickshift

[Niall]

Tools required;
10 and 12 mm spanner
10mm and 13 mm sockets with ratchet
Jack and axle stands
Allen keys
Torx keys
Cup of tea and/or coffee

Step 1:
Stick the kettle on

Step 2:
Whilst the kettle is boiling, go and jack your car up at the front. I found I only needed the drivers front lifted. Place your stand under and make sure it's secure.



Step 3:
Go and make tea and/or coffee. You may accompany your hot beverage with biscuits or other related snacks. It is also entirely up to you wether you have milk or sugar. I am not held responsible however if you do and it ends up being horrendously detrimentalto the fitting of your quickshift.


(I would also appreciate it if there were no comments on the cup I used )

Step 4:
Inside the car, pull your knob hard till it comes......off the gear stick. Make sure you don't hit your self in the face or break something. Now remove the gator and you should be presented with something similar to this.



Step 5:
Remove the ash tray at the back of the centre console and remove the 2 t20 screws in there. Now remove the two 10mm nuts holding it at the other end and remove the centre console.

Step 6:
Now get under the car and look above your exhaust. You should see the stick coming through the floor and connecting to the linkage. Remove the bolt going through it (12mm bolt with 10mm nut) and seperate the linkage from the stick.

Step 7:
Now back inside the car, undo the 4 10mm nuts holding the stick in place. Once undone, you should be able to just drop the stick out under the car and have something like this.



Step 8:
Now, stop for a drink. If your as good as me, your hot beverage should be at optimum drinking temperature (this claim is based on you filling the cup with fully boiling water and the outside temperature being 2 degrees)

Step 9:
Remove the rubber covers from the base of your shaft and you should be presented with this:



You want to undo the 4 clips around the plastic ring and pop it off. Now your shaft should just pop out of the base. Remove all the bits of rubber and plastic and you should have something like this:



Step 10:
Using a hammer (bigger the better) smash the plastic ball off the shaft. This should be relatively easy if you have a large hammer. Clean it all up and you should now have this



Yes? Good!

Step 11:
Take one of the collars from the New quickshift and bolt it onto your shaft roughly where the textured bit is (this made it very short). Place into the quickshift and bolt the top collar on tightly. You don't want any play really so as tight as possible is good!
You should now have this



Note: the bolts don't come with the quickshift. Luckily I had these lying around

Step 12:
Bolt back into the car. You will more than likely find the holes in the floor of the car are too small for the bolts by about 0.5mm. Take a drill and 8mm drill bit and drill them out and it will be good to go!
Once bolted in, reconnect the linkage inderneath but don't bolt in properly as you will more than likely have to remove it again to adjust.
You should now have this



Step 13:
Sit in the car and play lots with your shaft. Is it too short? Is it too long? Really that's down to your personal opinion. You will end up spending a while adjusting it too how you want it.

Step 14:
Happy with it? In that case, bolt up the linkage under the car and drop it back to the ground. Put the interior back to how it was and take it for a spin!



I found that the collars do come loose so once your happy with it, remove it again and drill some dimples into the stick where the grub screws sit. Screw them in and loctite them in place. This should do the job. You can also use something like araldite around the collars to keep them in place.